Is shaving your perineum dangerous?

If you're not medically qualified, never read medical websites. That's my advice. And while not following that advice, I found some websites connecting minor surgery in the perineum caused a nasty bacterium (that only lives on the perineum, I think) to attack heart valves with near fatal consequences, when the valve is faulty.
So, if you have a dodgy heart valve, and you cut yourself down there, you could be providing an opportunity for something bad to happen.
And here's the real rub ; some people have dodgy heart valves without knowing it (eg. bicuspid valves)
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)64600-4/pdf
Sleep well!!!!

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RE: Is shaving your perineum dangerous?

I shave as well and use veet cream from time to time. Never had a problem down there.

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RE: Is shaving your perineum dangerous?

Well, I won't talk about the perineum, but one of our sons had all his wisdom teeth extracted, but did not take prophylactic antibiotics. six months later, he was laid up after having one abscess removed from his brain and 6 months after that the PIC line was finally removed after aggressive antibiotic treatments twice daily.
Yes, he had a heart murmur. Forget which valve it was, though.

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RE: Is shaving your perineum dangerous?

Shaved mine for years, still hereLikewise. I just don't trust myself to shave my own anus.

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RE: Is shaving your perineum dangerous?

There are dangers to everything... but not really.
The perineum, for those that aren't certain, is the scientific word for the taint, the area between the genitals and the anus. If you use a rusty razor, don't treat the skin properly, and don't treat a cut properly yes it can be dangerous. Also if you don't wipe front to back when you have a bowel movement and you shave down there you could irritate a potential cut... but for the most part it's no more dangerous than the rest of the shaving

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